The recycled polyethylene terephthalate (R-PET) market has seen its least volatile year since pre-COVID times, with seasonal trends replacing the extreme spikes and troughs experienced in recent years.
Plastics
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Plastics
Aimplas expands RecyClass recognition to cover the automotive and electrical-electronic sectors
Aimplas has expanded its RecyClass recognition to include its laboratories for evaluating the recyclability of plastic materials used in the automotive and electrical and electronic sectors.
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Every day, large quantities of post-consumer plastic waste are generated from packaging, household applications, and more. Despite the costly processing of this waste through sorting stations and wet washing, the output from these material flows often cannot be reused for high-quality applications due to remaining unpleasant and pungent odours in the granulate.
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The European plastics value chain is at a breaking point. A deep competitiveness crisis is suffocating the industry, with serious consequences already materialising across the sector. By the end of 2025, the region is expected to have lost recycling plants, amounting to almost one million tonnes of recycling capacity.
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The European plastic recycling industry is facing imminent collapse. The surge in low-priced imports of recycled plastics, the consequent decrease in the demand for EU-made recyclates, mounting economic pressures and excessive red tape are driving an increasing number of EU recyclers out of business.
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Tray-to-tray recycling is becoming a recognized approach for advancing circularity in plastic packaging – especially for food-grade applications. Valerio Sama, Business Development Manager – Packaging at Tomra Recycling, examines the latest developments in tray-to-tray recycling, detailing the challenges, technologies and market trends shaping its growth across the industry.
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The DECONWASTE project, funded by IVACE+i and the ERDF, aims to address the challenge of meeting the food safety requirements set by European regulations and ensuring consumer protection.
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Indorama Ventures has announced that it has recycled more than 150 billion post-consumer PET bottles since 2011.
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Southeast and East Asia plays a central role in the global effort to tackle plastic pollution, given its substantial share of the global economy, strategic position in plastics value chains and rapidly rising plastics demand, according to a new OECD report.
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Multilayer plastic materials present a major challenge at the end of their life cycle due to the complexity of separating and processing their different components. This difficulty leads to lower recycling efficiency and increases the amount of waste ending up in landfills or incinerators.
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It defies the ravages of time again and again and celebrates an almost endless comeback – the record. A traditional company from Haarlem is partly responsible for the previous peak in the seventies, as well as for the modern boom: Record Industry.
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